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Obama's Fair Tax

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:34:57 GMT

clipped by: Rustee
clipper's remarks:

Mr. Warren, a man of the cloth, has done us a great service by asking the candidates to answer a pretty secular question: What kind of income makes an American "rich"? Maybe in the more secular setting of an upcoming debate, one of our nonpastor moderators could ask the candidates the moral question: What specific rate of individual taxation would it take for the rich to be paying their fair share?

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

He talks about it as a general theme: "It is time for folks like me who make more than $250,000 to pay our fair share."

He invokes it as a solution for Social Security: "[W]e will save Social Security for future generations by asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share."

He points to how it guides his energy policy: "The first part of my plan is to tax the windfall profits of oil companies and use some of that money to help you pay the rising price of gas."

And he stuck to it on capital gains, even after ABC's Charlie Gibson noted that the record shows increased taxes on capital gains -- which would affect 100 million Americans -- would likely lead to a decrease in government revenues: "Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness."

It's not about robbing from the rich to give to the poor. Robbing from the rich will do, especially if it's done in the name of fairness.

Tags: taxes, election

Democrats want Alaska oil money, but not live there!

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:27:17 GMT

clipped by: The REAL Napster
clipper's remarks: People in Alsaka get to reap the windfall of a balanced state budget (they even have a surplus, oooh bad word...) yet the-hold-out -their-hand democrats want a piece of that action! You want it - MOVE TO ALASKA you spineless idiots. The people of Alaska also get some free land! Imagine that. The nerve!
I have good friends that live in Anchorage and they say most of the whiners here wouldn't survive.

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

Every Alaskan gets $3200 from oil money - for nothing!

$22,400 for a family of 7, like Palin's. When oil companies pay taxes to Alaska, they deduct it from their federal taxes, and we of the other 49 make up the difference. 85% of budget from oil companies; residents pay no income or sales taxes, and state is rolling in dough, while most states are laying off teachers.
How ironic, when an Alaska Republican opposes a windfall profits tax, and favor reduced government services - when they live, in part, off of government handouts from revenue the oil industry pays them to get oil to us!

masbury says:

Tags: greedy, democrats, tax, alaska

Where are the marches for peace?

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:34:20 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: "Ah, who am I kidding? It is one thing to march against the country that liberated half of Europe and kept it that way for the following 50 years. It is quite another to march against a nation that enslaved half of Europe and kept it under a bloody slavery for 50 years. I can see the morally bankrupt relativist lefty loonies massing to the streets to protest the overthrow of a regional warmonger who managed to kill at least half a million of his own citizens in a few decades. It takes no courage to stand up against that, only vast amounts of ignorance and self adoration."

Clip Source: www.brusselsjournal.com

I wonder is there the slimmest of chance to see millions of exalted young people passionately marching for peace in Georgia… It shouldn't be too much of an effort. All they have to do is brush the dust off from the "not in our name", "no blood for oil", "war is not the answer", etc placards, paste Vladimir Putin’s and Dmitri Medvedev’s faces over Bush’s or Blair’s on the "worst ever", "mass murderer" and "real terrorist" placards and voila! ready to march for peace. Preferably in millions, preferably in Moscow, to ram the message through to Putin and Medvedev.

will we hear of passionate peace activists, who are determined to go and chain themselves to Georgian government buildings and other such sites to offer human shield against malicious and deliberate bombing by Russian planes on civilian targets.

John McCain: A Veteran against Veterans

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:19:13 GMT

clipped by: zizzy
clipper's remarks: He takes on the mantle of veteran for political reasons. He's got some nerve accusing Barack Obama of playing politics. That's McCain's M.O. as betrayer MA/POWs and their families so that his father-in-law could sell more beer. I wonder how many houses McCain's back-stabbing bought.

Clip Source: www.capitolhillblue.com

Older veterans remember well how John McCain and John Kerry shut down all further investigation into remaining MIA/POW in order to open up trade with Vietnam over the protests of family members. They remember full well how these families were treated and talked to by McCain. They also remember how John McCain's father-in-law immediately opened up a beer industry in Vietnam as soon as trade resumed

Union Veterans, has this to say about John McCain

Not only has McCain voted the wrong way on veterans' issues - such as opposing increased funding for veterans' health care the last four years in a row - but he also doesn't support middle class people's issues

He wants to tax people's health care benefits, and supports unfair trade deals, including NAFTA." www.unionveterans.org

John McCain runs on a platform of being a vet yet he obviously does not support the needs of veterans. Why support a politician who does not support our troops? Surely, our veterans deserve more than just buffalo chips.

Every Alaskan gets $3200 from oil money - for nothing!

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:49:36 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: $22,400 for a family of 7, like Palin's. When oil companies pay taxes to Alaska, they deduct it from their federal taxes, and we of the other 49 make up the difference. 85% of budget from oil companies; residents pay no income or sales taxes, and state is rolling in dough, while most states are laying off teachers.
How ironic, when an Alaska Republican opposes a windfall profits tax, and favor reduced government services - when they live, in part, off of government handouts from revenue the oil industry pays them to get oil to us!

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Welcome to the People's Republic of Alaska, where every resident this year will get a $3,200 payout, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of Sarah Palin, the state's Republican governor. That's $22,400 for a family of seven, like Palin's. Since 1982, the Alaska Permanent Fund, which invests oil revenues from state lands, has paid out a dividend on invested oil loot to everyone who has been in the state for a year.

No wonder she is popular with voters in a state whose residents pay no income or sales taxes but are blessed with state coffers rolling in cash at a time when all other states are suffering. Indeed, when the oil companies pay more taxes to the state of Alaska, they get to write that off against their federal tax obligation, leaving the rest of us to make up the shortfall.

Alaska

was getting upward of 85 percent of its budget from the oil companies

Why is it a good thing for the folks up in Alaska to get a cut of exorbitant oil company profits, but not the rest of us

Tags: alaska

Warm Fuzzy Leftists

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:22:21 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: "The 'Welcoming Committee' is a criminal enterprise made up of 35 anarchists who are intent on committing criminal acts before and during the Republican National Convention,"

The statement said the items found in the searches included:
# materials to creating "sleeping dragons" (PVC pipe, chicken wire, duct tape), which is when protesters lock themselves together
# large amounts of urine, including three to five gallon buckets of urine
# wrist rockets
# a machete, hatchet and several throwing knives
# a gas mask and filter
# empty glass bottles
# rags
# flammable liquids
# homemade caltrops (devises used to disable buses in roads)
# metal pipes
# axes
# bolt cutters
# sledge hammers
# repelling equipment
# Kryptonite locks
# empty plastic buckets cut and made into shields
# material for protective padding
# an Army helmet.

Clip Source: www.twincities.com

Weapons and devices to disable buses - among other items - were found in searches in the Twin Cities last night and today by Ramsey County sheriff's deputies.

Authorities said the items came from "key members of the RNC Welcoming Committee," a self-described anarchist group.

Five people have been arrested and four properties have been searched, according to the sheriff's office.

At 8 a.m. today, the sheriff's office executed search warrants at three Minneapolis homes - 2301 23rd Ave. S., 3500 Harriet Ave. and 3240 17th Ave. S. They were assisted by the FBI, Minneapolis police and the Hennepin County sheriff's office.

Life in Russia

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:56:05 GMT

clipped by: Charolastra

Clip Source: www.englishrussia.com

After a short summer break ER is back to life with daily updates.

Tags: russia, lifestyle

Somalia: Islamist Fighters Shut Down Restaurants

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:49:08 GMT

clipped by: Smoke TNT

Clip Source: allafrica.com

Islamist fighters have forced several restaurants to close for Ramadan in middle Shabelle because it would "violate the sanctity" of the month.

Authorities said serving daily meals are contrary to the order of Ramadan and it has been blocked the opening of restaurants during daylight hours during the month of fasting.

Several daily restaurants in the Ramadan have also been detained by the Islamic fighters.

The commander of Islamist fighters in Maxaas area where the incident happened Ali Bile has made it known that no-one will be permitted to violate the sanctity of the month.

The start of the ninth and holiest month in the Muslim calendar is determined by the sighting of the new moon, which means Muslims in various countries begin Ramadan at dawn one different days.

Tags: islam, muslims, islamofascism, restaurants

Nigerian man to divorce 82 wives

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:54:32 GMT

clipped by: Smoke TNT

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Mr Bello Abubakar challenged Muslim scholars two weeks ago

A Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives has accepted an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all but four of them, local authorities say.

A spokesman for the emir of Bida told the BBC that Mohammadu Bello Abubakar, 84, agreed on Saturday to comply with the decree.

Last week one of Nigeria's top Islamic bodies, the Jamatu Nasril Islam, sentenced him to death.

The sentence was lifted but he was threatened with eviction from his home.

Earlier, Mr Abubakar had challenged Islamic scholars, saying there was no punishment stated in the Koran for having more than four wives.

"I have not contravened any established law that would warrant my being banished from the land... There is no law that says one must not marry more than four wives," the AFP news agency reported him as saying.

The former teacher and Islamic preacher lives in Niger State with his wives and at least 170 children.

Many of the wives live three to a room

Tags: weird, marriage, muslims, islam

MPs too scared to talk about forced marriage 'in case they lose Muslim votes'

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:54:04 GMT

clipped by: Smoke TNT

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Politicians are too scared to speak out against forced marriage in case they lose valuable Muslim votes, according to a veteran Labour MP.

Ann Cryer said politicians in areas with high Muslim populations, many of which are Labour heartlands, should be at the forefront of the campaign to stop young couples being made to wed against their will by their families.

But she claimed that some politicians are afraid to speak out on the issue in case they alienate Muslim voters. The forced marriage unit at the Foreign Office deals with an estimated 300 cases every year, most of them involving teenage girls from Pakistani or Bangladeshi families.

Mrs Cryer, who is stepping down as MP for Keighley in West Yorkshire at the next general election, added that local Muslim leaders are not doing enough to encourage integration and accused them of trying to keep immigrants who move to Britain "in the backwoods".

It comes just days after Gordon Brown praised her "brave" campaign against forced marriage

Tags: islam, muslims, islamofascism, politics, marriage, crime

Credit Where It's Due [Mark Steyn]

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:46:17 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: I trust even now Maureen Dowd is working on a hilarious new column mocking proposed names for the Governor's first grandchild. Perhaps Richard Cohen can just take the week off and they can rerun his insightful analysis comparing the Palin nomination to Caligula making his horse a consul. Whereas we sophisticates all know that if McCain were as smart as Obama he'd have nominated a dead horse to be his consul. No wait...

Clip Source: corner.nationalreview.com

I would like to thank the US media for doing such a grand job this last week of lowering expectations by portraying Governor Palin - whoops, I mean Hick-Burg Mayor Palin - as a hillbilly know-nothing permapregnant ditz, half of whose 27 kids are the spawn of a stump-toothed uncle who hasn't worked since he was an extra in Deliverance.

How's that narrative holding up, geniuses? Almost as good as your "devoted husband John Edwards" routine?

Tags: sarah palin, us media, john edwards

Giuliani flattens temple Obama

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:24:07 GMT

clipped by: The REAL Napster
clipper's remarks: I mean really. I have NEVER seen this guy so fired -up. He tore the Obamination a new rear end. They won't be able to sit for a week!

Next up was VP nominee Sarah Palin and she finished off the pieces of Temple Obama that Rudy didn't obliterate. THE BEST LINE-
"Hope, is NOT a strategy!"

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Giuliani launches all-out attack on Obama

Ex-McCain rival says Democrat has no executive experience — ‘nada’

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani castigated Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois as a flipflopping lightweight in his keynote address Wednesday night, launching the heaviest sustained attack so far on the Democratic ticket at the Republican National Convention.

Giuliani discarded that playbook, casting Obama as “a gifted man with an Ivy League education” who was “immersed ... in Chicago machine politics.” He described Obama as a no-show during his tenure in the Illinois state Senate and a man who, once he got to Washington, was a “celebrity senator [with] no leadership, no legislation to really speak of.”

“This is not a personal attack. It’s a statement of fact,” he said. “Barack Obama has never led anything. Nothing. Nada. Nada. Nothing.”

Tags: rudy giuliani, flattens, obama

Arresting Protesters Before They Protest...Are we o.k. with that?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:37:55 GMT

clipped by: cptenaud
clipper's remarks: Read the comments. America is not taken over yet. The Nazis only think they have the upper hand.

We may see another 70s movement.

Clip Source: www.care2.com

Are we still living in The United States of America? Is it still the land of the free? I'm a bit confused. Since when do we raid homes of possible protesters, before they even have a chance to protest? Is it just me...Or is there something seriously wrong with this? Here is some commentary, raw video, and news clips...Let me know what you think about all of this in comments.

From Salon.com - Massive Police Raids on Suspected Protesters In Minneapolis...

Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes

[Video]

handcuffed, photographed and detained

Denver was the site of several quite ugly incidents

Dozens Detained Ahead of Convention

Minnesota Independent

ColdSnapLegal's invaluable twitter

Tags: gestapo, crackdown, minnesota

Palin Pledges Allegiance to AIPAC--Stamped "Approved"

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:00:28 GMT

clipped by: blueridge
clipper's remarks: From "Alaska First", and by-passing "America First", Palin goes straight to "Israel First". By consequence and definition then she can no longer be considered a "reformer". Like McCain, Obama, Pelosi, Hillary, and every other former 2008 candidate, the ultimate test of worthiness is not the American people but to the overbearing Lobby of a foreign government that sets the course of foreign policy in alliance with the neoconservatives--ensuring a continuance of the phony "war on terrorism"--to "make the world safe for Democracy" through wars for "regime change".

How quickly Washington transforms everyone, even from the remotest states, by coercing conformity to global democratic agenda and blind allegiance to Israel through the muscle of The Lobby. This trumps all other considerations, is the hallmark of foreign policy (and why wars never cease), which also in turn has consequences on the economy (high gas prices, national debt, value of money) and domestic policy as well.

Clip Source: firstread.msnbc.msn.com

From NBC/NJ's Matthew E. Berger
MINNEAPOLIS -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin today met with the board of directors of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, NBC/NJ has confirmed.

The meeting took place inside Palin's hotel, sources said.

A campaign official would not say who asked for the meeting, but said it was geared towards putting the American Jewish community at ease over her understanding of US-Middle East relations.

Palin, joined by Sen. Joe Lieberman, expressed her "heartfelt support for Israel" and spoke of the threats it faces from Iran and others, the campaign official said.

"We had a good productive discussion on the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and we were pleased that Gov. Palin expressed her deep, personal, and lifelong commitment to the safety and well-being of Israel," AIPAC spokesman Josh Block said.

would work to expand and deepen the strategic partnership

Tags: sarah palin, mccain, obama, 2008 candidates, israel, aipac, neoconservatives, war, middle east

Humility, Schmumility

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:50:11 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux

Clip Source: cafehayek.typepad.com

Dear Editor:

When I saw your headline "Obama Practices Humility Preached to Him" (August 24), I thought that the accompanying story must be a satire. But then I read the story and discovered that you're serious.

Get real. No truly humble person - no person who understands the limits of his own intelligence and capacity - parades around posing as the first plural pronoun in the outrageously narcissistic chant "we are the change we have been waiting for." No one with genuine humility utters anything so cocksure as Mr. Obama's promise to get one million 150-mpg cars on the road by 2015, or his vow to reduce Americans' carbon emissions by 80 percent (!) by 2050. Genuinely humble people don't presume to know how much profit earned by private companies is "windfall" - and they certainly don't formulate plans to confiscate such profits.

Indeed, no one within a light year of humility wants the kind of power and gaudy glory that Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain so desperately seek.